The 1959 Cannes film Festival

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not sure i've ever heard of Araya

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Ouch.

I will probably be getting to see HMA projected for the first time this coming weekend.

Sounds like a great Valentine's day screening.

When I saw this thread got no replies I thought not to vote and take my chances. Its kinda awesome.

This 'remake' is screening this Friday: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/film/nobuhiro-suwa-h-story

not sure i've ever heard of Araya

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Nor had I btw until I saw it at the ICA, included in a short Third Cinema season (films by Semebene and Rocha) but this is nearly ten years or so before they got going.

Recently I got a torrent of Ogawa's Red Persimmons

http://icarusfilms.com/new2004/redp.html

Its utterly beautiful and has many similar themes. An agricultural process that is the lifeblood of village life for generations is mechanized (so Araya doesn't quite work in that season). Its not so much anti-capitalist (despite hints to going that way) so much as the world turns/things change. In the Ogawa you see how the villagers themselves create a machine to make the peeling of persimmons easier -- this is the logic to full blown automation in play! And then life and traditions are suddenly broken away, the younger crowd go to the cities leaving the elders to carry it on, for as long as they are alive.

wow this is a new film set in Gujarat, but again about the extraction of salt.

https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=mynameissalt